“I now have a clone”

Janelle Monáe has teased a brand new album, joking that they now has a “clone” for music who has been onerous at work within the studio. Watch our video interview with the artist and actor above.

Monáe, whose main half as Helen Model within the new Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller marks the most recent in a future of acclaimed performing roles, has not launched a full album since 2018’s ‘Soiled Laptop’. “Oh you’re actually going to remind me of that?” she stated to NME when the four-year wait was talked about.

Requested about whether or not we’ll hear extra new music quickly, Monáe replied: “Really, you'll! You're going to get new music as a result of I now have a clone. That clone does all of my music, and I've one other clone for performing. I’m not going to let you know if it’s me or not. They’re within the studio proper now!

Monáe continued: “I simply really feel so humbled and tremendous, tremendous blessed to be doing something. Doing one thing like this, you don’t take it evenly.”

When Glass Onion co-star Daniel Craig was requested if he had a clone too, he replied: “I don’t know, perhaps! If I do they’re not as helpful as Janelle’s clone!”

Talking to NME about her new performing position, Monáe stated that the “Quantity One rule” of Glass Onion was to be “entertaining”.

“This can be a homicide thriller whodunnit movie that's meant to take folks on a experience and an expertise first,” stated Monáe. “The opposite stunning factor about it's as a result of the characters are modernised, the viewers members will take away from it who they're and what expertise they know.

“I hadn’t accomplished comedy. There are such a lot of comedic moments in a particular tone that Rian has created. I feel he’s been very modern on this whodunnit house.”

Again in 2021, Monaé shared the track ‘Stronger’ from the soundtrack to Netflix present We The Folks, which was produced by Barack and Michelle Obama. She then launched the protest track ‘Say Her Title (Hell You Talmbout)‘ – named after the social motion based by Kimberlé Crenshaw that “known as consideration to the black girls who've died by the hands of US police”. The monitor was additionally lined by David Byrne in his American Utopia reside present.

In 2020, the singer launched her first new music in two years with ‘Turntables’, a track featured on a forthcoming documentary about voter suppression.

In Monaé’s performing profession, in the meantime, Monáe, starred in a brand new movie known as Antebellum, a thriller produced by the brains behind the Jordan Peele movies Get Out and Us.  The singer additionally starred in sequence two of the Amazon Prime Video sequence Homecoming.

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller arrives on Netflix on December 23.